Design Movements Flashcards
arts and crafts
High skilled production focusing on the craftsmanship, reflecting natural forms and textures. Against machine age mass manufacture.
what designs did the art nouveau get created for
-glass
-furniture
-fabrics
arts and craft timescale
1880-1910
art nouveau
Natural forms and structures, flowers and plants.
Inspired by Japanese design.
Floral arabesques, whiplash lines
art nouveau timescale
1830-1905
bauhaus
Coined by Walter Gropius, industrial processes post war, simple colours, concrete. Function/form
-modern design material: steel, leather and wood.
bauhaus timescale
1919-1933
art deco
repeated geometric shapes- rising sun, fountains
-inspired by nature
-curved lines
art deco timescale
1920-1940
post modernism
This style included vivid colours, sleek lines, metals and glossy plastics.
post modernism timescale
1980s
memphis
-This was designed with bright colours, geometric shapes, crazy patterns, used metal, pop culture and MDF
-bright colours
-form over function
memphis timescale
1980-1988
de stijl
The art and design reform movement, that mainly consists of bold horizontal and vertical lines and primary colours.
